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what a day!! well good news is its done, see you at Maccies Drew

And here we are!

Good gawd! Hopefully she doesn't accidentally breed.

nice one newmee. i'm coming earlyish morning with my mate/brother in law , murph ,excuse him he swears a lot. puts me to shame he does. is my room ready bippo, i hope you've plumped my pillow .

The recovery guy showed up, We agreed it was electrical. I borrowed a couple of tools and in a couple of minutes, the bike was fixed and running. Another bad bodge by the previous owner. I thought better of continuing and didn't want to worry my better half much more so I rode the bike home. It rode really well. I will be up tomorrow morning , curry on Saturday night and staying somewhere - I need to look for another hotel now but I will go to the cancelled one if that's all that is around. Then I can ride back on Sunday. Bringing the FZ.

nice to see you guys, cya tomorrow at 13:00 for the ride out.

Sorry to hear that DDT. Elvis, Finnerz and Cynic are here fine. In addition to them, Airhead, myself, Blackie, Scott, Tommy and Drewps are here. Safe travels tomorrow.

Ooh, getting used to the R6 now. Already taken the tyres WAY past the previous owner's attempts and I don't even feel that I was trying. All I do is lean slightly to one side and it turns, then add bar weighing to add flavour. Sometimes I went what I thought was quickly into a turn only for the R6 to go "SORRY YOU ARE NOT A WINNER THIS TIME PLEASE TRY AGAIN". It makes a mockery of my attempts to mishandle it. The power... well, it was never going to be a patch on the FZR1000R but it is impressive enough without being intimidating. Pulls fast when pinned in 1st, pinned in 2nd it gets just a little light at the front but not too bad, and goes just fine above that. I did some speed-at-red tests. Now the FZR used to be 65, 100, 125, 145, 170. This is 65, 100, 125, 145, 160 and never saw top of 6th. Admittedly, I reckon 10% can be knocked off 4th and 5th for speedo inaccuracy but still, that's way more than I'll ever need. Was a bit surprised to see the fuel light at 109 miles, but then I was mostly between 12-14000rpm to get the engine braking I love so much. It moves along just dandy below that, but when caning the corners I like the motor to stabilise the back a little more. What has enormously surprised me though is... how comfy I am on it. I thought I would get off shaped like a question mark, I pre-apologised to my wrists for the pain they were about to go through, but there was no need. My right leg went to sleep a little from lack of use, other than that I am fine after 170 miles. Well chuffed so far. What I want to work on now is getting used to/practicing with the brakes. Any fool can go fast, I want to be able to get stopped just as quickly!

well that was short lived.. how far did you get, and what are your new plans mate. is your room available and paid for

Bummer. Hope the recovery didn't take too long and you get it sorted soon. If it was easy it wouldn't be any fun .........................

If like me you have ever owned or you are interested in mini's you will find this interesting. Quote: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Take one rotten 1980 Mini 1000 and one Toyota Celica GT-Four and use all their guile, cunning and skill to graft them together to create a Frankenstein’s monster of a car. http://www.badobsessionmotorsport.co.uk/test/index.php/projects/binky

Oh no Tommy... How gutting. Please try and find a way to come, will be great to see you! Finnerz - your bike is looking good! Safe travels.

So yeah I'm all ready and loaded up! [emoji13]

Tommy, if you cant fix it can you come in the car and bring your bike gear? you can ride pillion with me if you want

beat me to it

Hope you have some success Tommy... I'm just about to make tracks out of London now. Looking forward to the weekend.

That was mine ya b'stard. Furthest traveled 2stroke was a 4stroke. Not bitter lol